"cattail" meaning in English

See cattail in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈkæt.teɪl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cattail.wav Forms: cattails [plural]
Rhymes: -æteɪl Etymology: From Middle English cattal, cattyle (also as cattestail), equivalent to cat + tail. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|cattal}} Middle English cattal, {{com|en|cat|tail}} cat + tail Head templates: {{en-noun}} cattail (plural cattails)
  1. (US, historically, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire) Any of several perennial herbs, of the genus Typha, that have long flat leaves, and grow in marshy places. Tags: US, Yorkshire Synonyms (herb in Typha): bulrush, reedmace Translations (any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha): τύφη (túphē) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), بُرْدِيّ (burdiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), ҡамыш (qamış) (Bashkir), lezka (Basque), bova [feminine] (Catalan), balca [feminine] (Catalan), orobinec [masculine] (Czech), lisdodde [feminine] (Dutch), kodde [feminine] (Dutch), tifao (Esperanto), hundinui (Estonian), dúnkylva [feminine] (Faroese), osmankäämi (Finnish), massette [feminine] (French), quenouille [feminine] (French), espadana [feminine] (Galician), Rohrkolben [masculine] (German), Kolbenschilf [masculine] (German), סוּף (suf) [masculine] (Hebrew), gyékény (Hungarian), coigeal [feminine] (Irish), stiancia [feminine] (Italian), tifa [feminine] (Italian), (gama) (Japanese), зегсн (zegsn) (Kalmyk), popas (Klamath-Modoc), 부들 (budeul) (Korean), buda [feminine] (Latin), ulva [feminine] (Latin), ʔulal (Lushootseed), teeł (Navajo), dunkjevle [masculine, neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), dunkjevle [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), pałka [feminine] (Polish), tifa [feminine] (Portuguese), papură [feminine] (Romanian), рого́з (rogóz) [masculine] (Russian), rogoz [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), pálka [feminine] (Slovak), espadaña [feminine] (Spanish), kaveldun [neuter] (Swedish), hasır otu (Turkish), cynffon y gath [feminine] (Welsh), wiicihu (Winnebago)
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  2. A cat-o'-nine-tails.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: catstail

Inflected forms

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